Montreal All-Nighter at the Musée
New exhibitions and live performances

Montréal, February 5, 2007 – No doubt about it: The Musée d’art contemporain will be one of the hottest spots at the Montreal All-Nighter, part of the MONTREAL HIGH LIGHTS Festival. For this fourth edition, the museum will be open free of charge all evening, from 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 3, and on through the night till 5 a.m.

3 new exhibitions

Take advantage of this nocturnal outing to see some of today’s happening art, created by living artists using contemporary media.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier: Visual and acoustic installations that bring together the notions of order and chaos, permanence and fragility, featuring objects that have been salvaged and then transformed.

Jérôme Fortin: A brand-new series of remarkable assemblages made out of found, recycled paper. Fascinating, ephemeral works.

Guy Ben-Ner: This work, consisting of a modular, tree-like wood sculpture and a video, offers an ironic take on education and ecology. The artist appears in it as a Robinson Crusoe figure.

Live performances

Artist Milutin Gubash, whose video work since 2004 is the subject of a presentation now on view in Beverley Webster Rolph Hall, will give an innovative performance at the Musée, together with Women With Kitchen Appliances, at 9 p.m. WWKA describe themselves as a collective of three, four or five or six, with a variable geometry, who are: “Identical. Interchangeable. Disposable. And dead serious.” And who, as their name indicates, play on a “drum” set of kitchen appliances. Hilarious and most entertaining!

Midnight is the time set for the next Imprudanses competition, to be held in the museum’s main foyer. Modelled after theatre improv matches, Imprudanses is a dance competition in which two teams of professional dancers improvise according to themes and instructions provided by a referee. The dancers must perform solos, duets and group numbers in original series of movements that are then judged by audience vote. To the immense pleasure of the spectators, they alone decide which team earns the coveted points. 

Another must-see: a screening of a report presented on the Radio-Canada television program Prochaine Sortie on the making of the Jérôme Fortin exhibition at the museum (directed by: François Méthée; production: Bubbles Projets inc., 2007).

The Musée’s Olivieri bookstore-café and Boutique will be open to the public until midnight.

Information:  514-847-6226

Website: www.macm.org

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Source and information:
Danièle Patenaude                                               
Event Coordinator
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Tel.:  514-847-6234
E-mail: daniele.patenaude@macm.org